Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 205 mm, Gewicht: 175 g
A Novella
Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 205 mm, Gewicht: 175 g
ISBN: 978-3-565-67666-8
Verlag: epubli
At seventy-eight, Theo Maren has perfected the art of leaving.
For seven years, the retired art conservator has moved from city to city with two suitcases, a black notebook, and one private rule: never stay longer than twelve months. Then he arrives in the small Southern town of Golden.
Inside a quiet café beside the Oxbow River, Theo discovers a wall of ninety-two graphite portraits—ordinary faces captured with an intimacy that unsettles him. One portrait draws him closer, and what begins as curiosity soon places him inside lives he never intended to touch.
Theo has spent a lifetime studying fragile things. He knows how to recognize damage, preserve what can still be saved, and understand how easily careless hands can alter what they touch. But people are not works of art, and seeing someone clearly does not mean truly knowing them.
As unexpected friendships deepen and an estranged family relationship begins to pull him back toward the life he left behind, Golden becomes more than another temporary place. It becomes a question Theo can no longer avoid:
What if the hardest part of leaving is discovering somewhere worth staying?
Theo of Golden is a deeply human, character-driven literary novella about an older man starting over, grief and healing, family estrangement, friendship, art, second chances, and finding belonging in an unexpected place.
